“I’ve got a fulltime job reading bills in Congress without reading the bills in another 190 countries,” Grassley said. “Surely nobody in Iowa expects me to keep up on issues that are in the parliaments of other countries. Besides I don’t know anything about it.”

Grassley spokesperson Beth Levine also told the Iowa Independent that after inquiries from the press, their office “contacted the U.S. State Department to get more information” and was told “that the administration hasn’t made an official statement, but an assistant secretary has privately relayed concerns to the Ugandan president.”

Nearly 100 protesters rallied outside the Ugandan embassy in London yesterday to speak out against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The gathering included activists from Uganda, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.